Spike Lee

Do the Right Thing 1989

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

Category: Comedy, Drama

Stars: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee

8.0 IMDB Rating 91 Views
Malcolm X 1992

Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Delroy Lindo

7.7 IMDB Rating 1,762 Views
American Utopia 2020

Spike Lee documents the former Talking Heads frontman's brilliant, timely 2019 Broadway show, based on his recent album and tour of the same name.

Category: Documentary, Music, Musical

Stars: David Byrne, Jacqueline Acevedo, Gustavo Di Dalva

8,3 IMDB Rating 2,151 Views
Da 5 Bloods 2020

Four African-American vets battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their fallen Squad Leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.

Category: Drama, War

Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Jean Reno, Paul Walter Hauser, Delroy Lindo

6,6 IMDB Rating 3,805 Views
Inside Man 2006

From a cell, a man tells us he has planned the perfect bank robbery; he invites us to watch. An efficient gang enters a Manhattan bank, locks the doors, and takes hostages. They work deliberately, without haste. Detective Frazier is assigned to negotiate, but half his mind is occupied with the corruption charges he is facing. The bank's president has something to protect in a safe deposit box, so he brings in Madeleine White, a high-power broker with a hidden agenda. With an army of police surrounding the bank, the thief, the cop, and the plutocrat's fixer enter high-stakes negotiations. Why are the robbers asking for a plane, if they are so competent and they know they won't get one? Why aren't they in more of a hurry? If the job's perfect, why is the thieves' leader in a cell?

Category: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Stars: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer

7.6 IMDB Rating 9,697 Views
Clockers 1995

Young drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them.

Category: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Stars: Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo

6.9 IMDB Rating 3,806 Views
Oldboy 2013

Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason.

Category: Action, Drama, Mystery

Stars: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Samuel L. Jackson

5.8 IMDB Rating 8,071 Views
She’s Gotta Have It 2017–

Berättelsen om en kvinna och hennes tre älskare. TV-serier baserade på filmen av Spike Lee.

Category: Comedy

Stars: DeWanda Wise, Chyna Layne, Joie Lee, Elise Hudson

6.7 IMDB Rating 19,032 Views
Chi-Raq 2015

A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago, Illinois.

Category: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Stars: Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett

5.7 IMDB Rating 3,275 Views
Pass Over 2018

Two young men pass the time dreaming of the promised land.

Category: Drama

Stars: Jon Michael Hill, Julian Parker, Ryan Hallahan

5,7 IMDB Rating 2,945 Views
BlacKkKlansman 2018

Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, Colorado, successfully infiltrates the local Ku Klux Klan branch aided by a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Crime

Stars: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier

7.5 IMDB Rating 13,247 Views
4 Little Girls 1997

This film recounts the people and events leading up to the one of the most despicable hate-crimes during the height of the civil-rights movement, the bombing of the 16th Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama. In that attack, four little African-American girls lost their lives and a nation was simultaneously revolted, angered and galvanized to push the fight for equality and justice on.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Maxine McNair,Chris McNair,Helen Pegues,Queen Nunn

7.9 IMDB Rating 3,602 Views
Summer of Sam 1999

Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.

Category: Crime, Drama, Romantic

Stars: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino

6.7 IMDB Rating 3,573 Views
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus 2014

An anthropologist awakes with a thirst for blood after an assistant stabs him with a cursed dagger.

Category: Comedy, Romantic, Thriller

Stars: Stephen Tyrone Williams, Zaraah Abrahams, Rami Malek

4.3 IMDB Rating 2,557 Views
Old Boy 2013

An advertising executive is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his punishment, only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment.

Category: Action, Drama, Mystery

Stars: Josh Brolin,Elizabeth Olsen,Sharlto Copley,Samuel L. Jackson

5.8 IMDB Rating 4,661 Views
He Got Game 1998

A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.

Category: Drama, Sport

Stars: Denzel Washington, Milla Jovovich, Ray Allen

6.9 IMDB Rating 6,904 Views